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🍋The new Friend of Sweny's Badges have arrived! Hand crafted by our amazing volunteer Ramona Agurkyte for our fundraiser. Get one of these beauties by becoming a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/swenyspharmacy

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-17

With Kenji Hayakawa on our way to visit the Museum Of Literature Ireland to which we were generously invited by Director Simon O Connor. It’s taking shape nicely and will be a wonderful addition to Dublin. Simon described his experiences at our ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-14

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Last Saturday, Feb 2nd, was James Joyce’s birthday. He’s no spring chicken at this stage, having been born in 1882. Sweny’s marked the occasion by having the wonderful Marion McEvoy singing Joycean songs. The second photo L-R myself (Jack Wa...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-04

I’ve been very silent on Sweny’s FB page recently because I’ve been moving home, which takes a lot more time than you expect! So here we are back with a photo from Brazil. Fortaleza to be exact, and our volunteer and board member Bruno Ponte...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-01

The Triestine basketball team Alma's kit now features a quote from Joyce: "La mia anima è a Trieste/My soul is in Trieste", from a 1909 letter to Nora! (With thanks to Nick Sweeney)

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-01-15

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Back to basics after the heady night at The Dead Dinner last Sunday. Main picture, our 4 volunteers at the Ulysses reading last night (Thursday 7pm every week) L-R Milena from Germany, PJ, Bruno from Brazil and myself, Jack. If you fancy being a v...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-01-11

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Photos from The Dead Dinner last Sunday evening in Wynn’s Hotel. What a night! Just about crowbarred everyone in (two extra tables) and had a great time. A reminder of what Sweny’s and Joyce are all about - people Couple of notes, you’ll not...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-01-08

An advert from our days as a chemist. Well, you can never be too careful...😉

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-12-20

Concentration during last Thursday evening’s Ulysses reading of the Eumaeus chapter (the Cabman’s shelter episode). A lot of fellas as Joyce would put it with nothing between them and heaven (as in...hair) 😂

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-12-17

Massimiliano Bianchi performing last night in Sweny’s from his wonderful book of poetry Viaggio Poetico with guitarist Gregory Poirier from France (Greg’s mother loved the actor Gregory Peck!). It was a great occasion, Sweny’s packed to the ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-12-12

Max Bianchi, a neuroscientist and poet and long time collaborator on Sweny’s Italian group readings of Ulysses on Sundays at 3pm, presents a selection of his beautiful poetry in Italian on Tuesday 11th December at 7pm in Sweny’s. This show has...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-12-04

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A great night at Dublin City Hall as PJ was honoured by being eulogised as one of the Local Heroes of Dublin. This is in the tradition of the famous ‘Dublin characters’ of old. The tall fella standing next to PJ is the poet Geoff, who composed...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-11-21

Malcolm O Hagan, founder of the American Writers Museum in Chicago and our very own PJ after last Thursday’s Ulysses reading. Tonight at 7pm it’s the beginning of the Circe (Nighttown) chapter. Very surreal. Whippings, transvestism, and of cou...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-11-15

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Lord Mayor of Dublin Niall Ring signs Sweny’s Visitors Book and Áine Caffrey, grand niece of Seumas O'Kelly speaking at an event in Sweny's to mark the centenary of the writer's death. https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/opinion/las...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-11-14

A big day for us at Sweny’s last Friday as Annagret Simms MRIA, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Planning at UCD presented the Finnegans Wake related papers of her late husband, the deeply missed David Simms, FTCD, late Emeritus Professor of ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-11-10

Dark, but stick with it. Lincoln’s Inn pub after the Finnegans Wake reading on Sunday. PJ twirling Paula around the dance floor. We’re a serious bunch us Joyceans

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-11-06

Stefan Brülle, Vicki Walsh (film producer), PJ, Sig Culhane (film director), myself and Barbara Brülle in Kennedy’s after the Thursday night Ulysses reading. Ok, I was at the reading (Oxen of the Sun chapter), they were already in Kennedy’s ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-11-02

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Sweny’s at Halloween. I wonder are the ghosts moving around tonight. There is at least one. A woman with a long dress and a wide Edwardian hat, seen by PJ in a hair raising moment. And possibly another, spotted in a photo by a good friend who is...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2018-10-31

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